Look at the Book

As a sinner, you can’t afford to ignore the good or the bad news in John 3:16.

Heaven will be full of sexual sinners who repented and fought against lust with God’s help. It will not be full of those who refused to fight.

Preach God’s promises to your sadness. And keep preaching — for days, months, years, a lifetime. However long it takes.

How can I let go of the bitterness I still carry and treat people who hurt me better than they deserve?

Our coveting problem is really a worship problem. We want what we cannot have because we believe that God is not enough.

Whether it’s crawling through rush-hour traffic or suffering through years of loneliness, God has given us what we need to have patience.

Not all shame is created equal. Some shame should be heeded and some shame should be defeated. Here’s how to fight misplaced shame.

Most of us have spent our lives fighting the bulletproof tanks of pride with a pea shooter. Here is what you actually need to kill it.

If we fully believed what God has promised in the Bible, anxiety would have no place in our lives.

The never-ending rewards of heaven give us never-ending reasons to love others today.

What does saving faith feel like? Like water to a thirsty soul. Like finding a treasure you cannot live without.

Even though we are not saved by works, none of us will make it to heaven without actively killing our sin. Either we kill our sin or it will kill us.

Much is at stake in our fight against unbelief. Without love, holiness, and sin-killing, no one will see the kingdom of God.

There is a comfort that heals and a comfort that kills. Do you know the difference?

Give wisdom to a wise man, and he will grow wiser. Give wisdom to a fool, and he will hurt himself and others.

When pride tempts you, look to the cross. When self-pity beckons, look to the cross. When everything seems alright, look to the cross.

Christian self-denial constantly says “no” to that which threatens to steal joy forever.

Other people’s interests are our interests because other people’s interests are Christ’s interests.

Don’t be anxious about anything — except for this.

Many search for advanced steps for Bible reading but neglect a basic one: don’t skip over words. Here are three words in the Bible we cannot ignore.

The happiest people are happy when others are. The most mature love is the love that delights in others’ joy.

If God has placed others-oriented men and women in your life, he has done so expecting that, by his grace, you might imitate them.

Our love for God enflames when we see his beauty, remember his mercy, and feel his love.

The gospel begins with the phrase, “but God,” because we can’t love him on our own.

At the heart of saving faith is a love for God. But how can you know if you truly love him?

The delightful promises of Scripture are for those who love him — and no one else.

You were not made for laziness. Many people struggle with sexual immorality because they sit around when they shouldn’t.

Our greatest weapon against lust is joy in God. Our happiness in him gives us what we need to obtain lasting victory in the war for our souls.

The war will be lost against lust by those who stop fighting it by the power and promises of God.

Saying no to lust is not enough. We must turn to a superior pleasure — the everlasting pleasure of knowing our God.

Lust will kill you unless you deal it a death blow first. You usually have five seconds to act.

The first step to fighting lust is one too many are unwilling to make — avoid it.

Few things have destroyed more marriages, stolen more joy, or strangled more souls than lust. Do you know how to fight it?

If we lose everything but gain Christ, we’ve lost nothing.

When we finally see the Lord face to face, we want to hear, “Well done good and faithful servant,” not, “Your labor was in vain.”

God doesn’t want his secret to contentment to stay secret. He wrote it plainly in a book.

When we set aside grumbling and complaining during hard times and take up joy in the Lord, a watching world sees stars shining in a dark world.

If you conquer this sin, James says you’ll be perfect, Paul says blameless, innocent, and without blemish. But it’s one of the hardest to conquer.

Our grumbling is not insignificant to God. When we choose contentment in the Lord over complaining, we shine as lights in the world.

The Bible is like no other book in the history of the world. Man wrote it, but God spoke it.

Bible studies are weakened because few believe that there are right and wrong interpretations of the Bible.

God’s word alone will stand forever. From age to age, country to country, and reader to reader, God’s truth, as revealed in Scripture, remains the same.

Those who come to a text without humility will only leave with their opinions. Those who come to the Bible to learn will leave with God’s truth.

Pride opens the Bible and reads without reading. Humility opens the Bible and asks God to give insight.

It is considered rude when we interrupt someone while they are speaking and tell them what they really mean. We must not do this to authors either.

Great Bible study isn’t about being able to articulate how you think or feel about a text. The meaning of a text is defined by the author, not the reader.

If you use God’s sovereignty as an excuse for passivity and laziness towards your sin, you may not be his child.

Satan works day and night to blind us to the fact that God’s children are never alone in their fight against sin.

Salvation is rooted in the past, worked out in the present, and guaranteed in the future.

If God justifies us by grace alone through faith alone, what does it mean to work out our salvation?